Wind plant operators face many challenges: low energy prices, hefty maintenance costs, investor pressure, and tight-- if existent-- margins. And despite common knowledge throughout the industry that wind turbines commonly underperform, the original e....
Canada has just released a wind energy database that will improve access to centralized, credible and publicly available energy data in Canada. The Canadian Wind Turbine Database (CWTDB) contains the locations of Canada’s approximately 6,....
Lidar devices are being used more and more to conduct wind resource assessment, as an alternative to meteorological masts. This is because they have several advantages over the traditional measuring technology. Once a meteorological mast is installed....